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Chicago examiner monday december 28 1908 price one cent gjggggjgg vol vii no 6 a m Taft plan to solve trust problem modeled on hearst bill interstate commerce court urged in measure introduced by the congressman killed by the railroads president-elect may be able to compel larger power for commission washington dec 27.â€”presi dent-elect Taft has paid wil liam randolph hearst the compliment of adopting almost ver batim one of the latter's plans for the solution of the trust problem the Taft plan of an interstate commerce court which is outlined in the dis patches from augusta follows along the same lines laid down in mr hearst's bill introduced when he was a member of congress and killed by a coalition of republican and demo cratic railroad representatives these facts were pointed out here to-day by officials who as yet will only consent to discuss the Taft plan privately because it has not yet been formally and officially presented when the hearst bill was introduced republican leading politicians while not understanding the value of the suggestion of the interstate commerce court held stoutly that congress would not stand for a multiplication of judieiai tribunals and it was of course impossible to have the hearst bill passed in the face of railroad and republican opposition hearst and Taft plans compared the object of the court contemplated by mr hearst was to expedite cases of com plaint between carriers and shippers and in order to do this it was proposed to in vest the court with full judicial powers short only of jurisdiction fiver grave consti tutional issues which might be raised in the consideration of any particular cases such issues of course would have to be passed upon by the supreme court ot the united states the scheme advocated by judge Taft is simply to invest the interstate commerce commission with judicial powers and to make the bureau of corporations and the department of justice its assistants it need not be stated that if the hearst bill had been passed the bureau of corporations and the department of justice would of necessity have been the assistants of the courts president-elect Taft would have this relation declared by statute law the reason for the suggestions of judge Taft is that if his views were written in to the statutes present legal operations with reference to interstate corporations would not be so cumbersome he properly maintained that the interstate commerce commission would be relieved of a lot of work which properly belonged to the bu reau of corporations and also of a lot of legal work which should belodg to the de partment of justice are essentially the same on all points of important relation to the public service the interstate commerce commission as a court according to judge Taft and the interstate commerce court of mr hearst are essentially the same expedition a quick settlement of affairs j between a railroad and a shipper the elimination as far as possible of all litiga tion except in the interstate commerce court were features of the hearst scheme expedition the concentration of bureaus and the hastening of issues to a swift hear ing and decision are features of the Taft scheme with the immense power which judge Taft as president will be r.ble to wield iu congress there seems to be very little doubt that he will establish a new inter state commerce commission with larger power than it now has and with judicial functions Chicago lawn citizens fight a prairie blaze women and children aid in battle to protect homes one fire company two policemen and about half the population of Chicago lawn including many women and children turned out to fight a prairie fire which threatened to destroy the suburb yesterday afternoon a spark from a belt line locomotive started the blaze in dry weeds nenr the tracks the high wind caused the flames to spread rapidly houses of chiea-o lawn were filled with smoke a call was sent to the Chicago lawn fire company and the residents of the locality followed the example of the northern woods d well el's in time of forest fires 125,000 fire in morris plant in st joseph mo st joseph mo dec 27 for eight hours to-day a fire which started in the fertilizing department of the nelson morris packing company's plant burned fiercely and was not subdued until this afternoou the loss is estimated at 125,000 by super intendent 1 vv lloyd from the fertiliz ing building the flames spread to the oil lank warehouse both buildings and con tents were entirely consumed desperate work was necessary to save the buildings of the hammond and swift & co plauts taft's plan feature of w r hearst bill introduced dec 4 1905 rhe rtansof william h Taft president-elect for the regu lation of corporations doing an to terstalj business were authorita tively given in dispatches from au gusta printed in all the papers yesterday the plan as outlined follows the interstate commerce com mission is to be relieved of its duties as an investigating body it is to be a commission exercising only quasi-judicial functions the jurisdiction of the bureau of cor porations on the other hand is to be extended over all corpora tions doing an interstate business it will be charged with the detailed work of investigating and prepar ing cases this bureau acting upon individ ual complaints or upon its own initiative will lay the results of its investigations before the inter state commerce commission for de cision it will originate all cases the new bureau in the department of justice will work in co-operation with the bureau of corporations and the interstate commerce com mission when legal aid is necessary below are extracts from a till to increase ihe powers of the in terstate commerce commission and to expedite the final decision of cases arising under the act to reg ulate commerce by creating an in terstate commerce court intro duced in the house of representa tives december -}, 1905 by william randolph hearst sec 8 that there is hereby cre ated a court to de known as the court of interstate commerce which shall consist of three jus tices * * Â» said court shall be a court of record sec 9 that said court of inter state commerce shall have exclu sive jurisdiction to review all or ders of the interstate commerce commission and summarily to en force performance thereof by writs or other proper process * * \ the said court shall also have ex clusive and all necessary jurisdic tion to enforce upon the petition of the united states or of the inter state commerce commission the requirements of the act to regulate commerce â€¢ * * disobedience of any order writ or other process of said court shall constitute con tempt of said court punishable by a fine 3 â€¢ * of 5,000 for each offense or by imprisonment for not more than one year or by both such fine and such punishment a * * while the hearst bill and the Taft plan differ in detail both agree on the idea of an interstate commerce court the hearst bill provided for a court whose decisions would be final except upon questions of con stitutionality it 1b mr taft's scheme to make it a quasi-judicial body in the hearst bill it was planned that the interstate commerce commission should continue its investigating powers if mr taft's proposed changes are made the bureau of cor porations will exercise administra tive functions becoming in effect the commission while the commission itself will act only in a judicial capa city roosevelt to catch em alive and crate em to zoo at washington washington d c dec 27.-ou the forthcoming african trip the president will try to capture a few of em alive and crate em borne to the washington zoo he has made no specific promise to this effect but inquiry has been made at the zoo from the white house as to what african animals are lacking in the collec tion and head keeper blackburn is wag ging bis head and speaking mysteriously about prospective additions to his zoolog ical collection none of the highly prized and almost ex tinct animals from the dark continent is at the zoo although the collection of the better known animals is excellent two african animals which dr frank baker the superintendent is desirous of adding to the collection are the oryx and the kleeaeboc antelope the oryx has the mane and tail of a horse and the legs and feet of an antelope the kleeneboc is the smallest variety of antelope known it is only a foot high at the shoulder and it is so timid that it is almost impossible for hunters to get close enough to kill one for several years blackburn also has been especially anxious to obtain a kahau the proboscis monkey this ape is aboat three feet high and is regarded as one of the rarest of the monkey family it is remarkable for its great length of nose from which ft derives its name a list of all these animals will be fur nished to the president before he departs zero weather for this week promised real winter weather is coming the lat ter part of this week possibly with zero temperature aceording to advices from the weather bureau last night in the early part of the week fresh winds will blow from the west the maximum tempera ture for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 o'clock last night was 45 degrees at 0 o'clock saturday night the minimum was 30 degrees at 9 o'clock yesterday morning pittsburger in jail still gets graft voters league to attach money deposited for council man sue banks to-day president sent experts heney may investigate alleged bribery at request of roosevelt ' pittsbtjbg pa dee 27 that even prison walls will not stop the average pittsburg boodling councilman from col lecting graft was apparently shown here to-day when it became known that the voters league and others who are run ning to earth the boodlers are prepared to show that w a martin former council manic boodler who is serving a three-year term at riverside penitentiary is still get ting his share of graft wrung from pitts burs among other things it was learned this afternoon that martin recently was given a long conference outside the prison witu president brand of councils the only on of the seven under arrest whose ball is held at 30,000 martin was brought from prison ostensibly as a witness in a certain case but he was not called instead he was made the hero of a reception by his former fellow council mates and president brand had a long conversation with him graft deposited monthly members of the voters league even as sert that martin's share of graft is being deposited for him monthly in a certain pittsburg bank and they intend to have it attached if possible proceedings will be begun to-morrow to force the six banks haviug the city depos its and which mayor guthrle and the voters league declare were obtained by fraud to relinquish them to twelve other depositories which shall be named here after it is found that of the 5,000,090 of city funds on deposit there are bonds amounting to only s*_\3o0,o0o to cover it that president roosevelt took a hand in the expose is the declaration of uabbi leonard j levy of the hebrew synagogue here levy is one of the vice presidents of the voters league and a very close friend of president boosevell he says he and willis mccoofc n noted pittsburg attorney and member of the board of the equitable life assurance were among those who went to washington with the data some time ago and asked for assistance eevelt sent examiners the same train returning with them ttsburg were six special bank exam sent by president roosevelt to get e banks quickly and all together so there would be no opportunity to twist out of conditions which the rabbi and mr mecook assured president roosevelt there is a rumor to-night that francis j heney who uncovered the oregon land frauds and was conspicuous in the san francisco graft prosecution is coming here soon at the request of president roosevelt to investigate the charges of wholesale bribery in the pittsburg coun cils so far as it is connected with federal institutions according to washington reports heney was in conference with the president yes terday on the pittsburg situation if he comes here it will be in the capacity of a special examiner it is said to investigate the alleged use of money by officers of national banks to have their institutions made depositories of the city's funds a statement was made at the preliminary hearings of the men under arrest that 176,000 had thus been expended new york theaters run with police censorship no sunday vaudeville permitted lectures at picture shows new york dec 21 the police ran the new york theaters to-day and the vaudeville house patrons had all the worst of matters every vaudeville manager had to release practically all the headliners and fill in a makeshift programme to fit the occasion the moving picture house managers thanks to their injunction got along much better with the aid of a lec turer the actors and managers of the houses operated by the theatrical man agers protective association managed to escape trouble but independent players and operators were not so fortunate su perintendent john i'lnkler of the american theater was taken into custody with cliff gordon a monologist when the latter was charged with impersonating some one big wolf chases man in streets of peoria pursued escapes into home and kills animal from window peoria 111 dec 27 the unusual spectacle of a large gray wolf pursuing a man through the streets of this city was witnessed on lower cedar street here to day when the animal darted from a tim ber yard near the river front and chased b'rank kiefer to his residence kiefer got inside the house in time to slam the door in the wolf's face then seizing a rifle he shot the animal from a window where the wolf came from is a mystery as it has been years since one has been seen even by hunters in this vicinity it is believed however that the wolf is oue of a reported den located blow pekin in tazewell county and that it edged its way along the river bank into peoria and was driven by hunger to attack liiefer chappells united leave for florida doctor's wife whose disap pearance alarmed family arrives from boise idaho was seeking health we're as happy as sweet hearts she says after affectionate meeting mrs ora a cliappell sotiety woman and wife of the prominent elgin dentist whose mysterious disappearance from her home last oetober and whose long-continued ab sence had given rise to much gossip and speculation in her home city reached chi cago yesterday afternoon from boise idaho where bhe has been recuperating her shattered health with her husband the two as happy as a pair of reunited sweethearts apparently she left later in the evening fckr jackson ville fla where she and dr chappell will spend the remaining winter mouths mrs chappell all unconscious of the worry and anxiety the had been causing her aged mother and her sons by her fail ure to keep them informed of her where abouts left the home of the rev j a barton a fresbyterian minister ln boise in response to a telegram from her hus band on christmas eve met at station by husband when she arrived at the la salle street station yesterday afternoon dr chappell who had been pacing up and down the platform for an hour before the train ar rived rushed up to her clasped her in his arms and imprinted several kisses upon her cheeks mi chappell was beaming and happy she returned the salutation and began ] an animated conversation with dr chap pell she appeared to be in perfect health in a few moments dr and mrs chappell were joined by mrs harry g meeker of elgin mrs chappell's dearest friend and the only person in elgin except dr chap pell who hud known all along where she ' was and mrs meeker's nineteen-year-old daughter mildred the party went to a downtown restaurant for dinner and then i mrs meeker and her daughter went to the i station to sec the doctor ami his wife started pn their southern journey i went to boise simply to regain my ' health which had been sadly shattered liy the experience through which i had gone in the few months previous said mrs chappell i didn't want anyone to know where i had gone and i made my husband promise that he would not tell anyone we were in correspondence constantly laughed at disappearance story ( i had no idea that my absence vas creating any talk in elgin until i was only a day out from Chicago then i picked up a paper and saw the story of my mys terious disappearance it made me laugh i don't see why anyone ln my family should have worried over me none of them seemed to do any worrying about me when i was at hame especially my sons who in turn gave me plenty of cause for 1 worry dr chappell and myself are thoroughly in accord on every subject what he has done has been right he has done just what i should have wished him to do un der the circumstances if i wanted to go away and rest and be kept from worry that was something between my husband and myself i am happy to be back i am happv to , see my husband again we are as h-appy , as a pair of youug sweethearts if there have ever been any clouds on our domestic i horizon they have been swept awav long ago bill was withdrawn mrs chappell it will be remembered filed a bill for separate maintenance j against dr chappell last fall the bill was speedily withdrawn shortly before mrs chappell left home previous to this 1 there had beeu anottnw misunderstanding which resulted in her leaviug home ana taking up her residence with her sister mrs c h potter this time through the good offices of her son ora mann chun pell a reconciliation was effected in regard to her sons ora and hollo who have become estranged from their father nnd who have been publiclv cast ! ofl by their parent mrs chappell had < little to say j they are foolish hoys she said they 1 will soon see the error of their ways and will realize that they have beeu led by s some one who has not their best interests ; at heart i am sorry that they have , broken with their father but under the ' circumstances there was nothing else for t him to du . dispatches from boise say that mrs , chappell lived for a time with iho barton â€¢ family as was exclusively told yesterday â– morning in the examiner > did not talk of trouble i although she was with us or several j mouths said mrs barton last night she never divulged the cause of her com ing or going it was evident that she was f laboring under a great sorrow of some 5 sort but she did uot explain it the day before christmas she told us that a large part of her burden bad been removed and that she was preparing to leave that is all we know aoout her although we were friendly to her and soon acquired au ad miration and respect for her the manner in which mrs chappell se cured quarters with the her mr barton 5 and wife threw some light on the agita tion under which she was laboring when she arrived in boise she had secured an apartment at the idanha hotel and she was attempting to 1 get a room in a private faniily when she , came to us continued mrs barton we . had not advertised for a roomer but she ' appeared to be especially anxious to live - with us after she learned that my hus . band was a minister 1 under mental stress r her whole appearance and condition 3 made it evident that she was under a 1 mental stress of some sort and we hes . itated on that account before agreeing to let her have the room she perceived ' our reluctaucy and assured us that al 1 though she could not tell us her story she t was doing what she believed was right and could in no manner harm us as her reputation was unsullied 1 just before leaving boise mrs chappell s received several telegrams which seemed to i increase her agitation christmas eve she got one supposedly from her husband and left at ouce for Chicago i v programme of prosecution in new beef trust inquiry r the present proceedings before the federal gtflnd jury the government has two objects in vieiv first â€” to prove conclusively i hat there is a beet trust second â€” to prove conclusive ly that this trust has entered into au agreement with the Chicago bur lington i quincy railroad the government will use officials of rival and competing roads in the attempt to prove its contentions by these rival officials the gov ernment expects to show that the bulk of the alleged trust's business has been thrown to the bur lington that the shipments and railroad business for the different packing com panies are all handled by one man hence that the trust which was supposed to have been dissolved by fed eral injunction is in reality in existence that rebating is going on contrary to law f a delano president of the wabash ; j h hiland vice president of the Chicago milwaukee & st paul ; george nicholson vice pres ident of the santa fe and w s biddle vice president of the rock island are all expected to testily to these alleged existing conditions frederick a delano george t a ichulson prophet missing sits quit watch spangler leaves home of follower promising to meet her on mars new york dec 27 although the end of the world did not come to-day as lee j spangler the prophet of nyack n y had predicted it would the prophet himself disappeared at 4 a m and has not since been seen spangler had cautioned all the saints to be prepared for trans lation therefore a crowd of women fol lowers dressed in white went to oak hill cemetery to-day to await the event scores of others climbed south mountain where the prophet had promised to meet them when the predicted phenomenon did not materialize and spangler failed to appear his disciples returned to the city many with looks of disgust on their faces from sunup until midday the prophet's disciples clad in flimsy white muslin cau vag shoes and wool caps waited patiently for the rivers to dry up the mountains to tumble new york to go up in smoke and themselves to be caught up into the heavens according to chief of police furroy prophet spangler who spent the night at the home of mrs henrietta murdoch his high priestess ascended to heaven early in the day by way of the back door while policemen warrant in hand were watching the front of the house before he departed he told mrs mur dock tiiat he would meet her on mars where all hands were to change their cor poreal for spiritual bodies mrs murdoch had been assigned to go to the railroad station at 10 a m to welcome iu the prophet's place the host of disciples expected from manhattan and lead them to ex-prophet abram's grave high up the mountain in oak hill cemetery this change in plan was decided upon because a trusty follower conveyed to the prophet the intelligence that some unsym pathetic nyack citizens were melting a pot of tar and collecting a bag of feathers the procession attracted a coupl of hundred men and boys most of whom were armed with eggs cabbages oranges and apples which had seen better days scotty wins cab at dice will give it away calls up the examiner to find worthy charity a distressed voice called up the ex aminer at an early hour this morning and said this is walter scott scotty of death valley you know i've just won a horse and cal shooting craps and i wish you'd come down and get it it's at the annex now i drove it home where did i get it why at a south side saloon i started in to shoot craps at a hundred a crack with a bunch of sports and pretty soon we raised it to 500 j j smith a cabby butted in " i'll shake you my horse and cab against 500 he said on the shake i won the outfit i would like to give thi rig to charity if you can suggest a way so any charity wishing a horse and cab will please see scotty 2 a m word has just been received from the annex that the cab has been given back to the cabman two shot in family fight in the dark brothers battle with brothers believed to have involved girl greenville 111 dee 21 five young men who until christmas day had been the best of friends engaged in a desperate battle late at night iu the home of charles b file a prosperous farmer who lives near reno bond county one of the boys is dead another is dangerously wounded the latter part of the battle was in the dark all the lights having been shot out ruby file nineteen years old is the one who was killed his brother noah file twenty years old was dangerously wounded john and james willlford are now in jail at greenville their brother george willlford is charged with shooting ruby file but he has escaped james says he did not figure in the affair at all the williford boys are sons of henry w willlford one of the wealthiest farm ers ln the western eud of bond county the willlfords and the files are related by marriage girl believed cause of fight there are two explanations of the shoot ing one is that it grew out of a dispute over 125 which george williford said samuel file owed him another explana tion nnd the one generally accepted as the fact ls that the trouble was about a sister of the wiillford boys to whom sam file had been very attentive none of the parties concerned will discuss the affair george and john willlford visited the file farm early last evening and asked for ! sam but he was not at bomb they went away and met sam coming home iu a buggy he whipped up his horse and es | caped them then the wiilifords went back to the file farm antl battered on the door until charles it file admitted them we want to see sam said george williford sam consented to a parley in the kitchen provided george would go unarmed his was agreed to and tiie young men eon fronted oilier men battle in darkies file declined to make auy explanations and they returned to the sitting room where williford demanded that file should accompany him home file rel'used to go without protection then johu willlford handed a revolver to george and george wns about lo tire at sam file when ruby file interfered and got the bullet that was intended for his brother the lights went out and the wild strug gle of the six men went on in the dark ness noah file wa.s shot in an attempt to disarm george williford af^er several minutes of lighting sam file succeeded in throwing geoi-ge williford out of he house and bis brother john followed of his own volition - the two brothers leaped upon their horses and disappeared john and james williford were arrested at their father's home at 4 o'clock this morning st louis other neighboring cities nre being searched for george twain to pay debts with red cross stamps new york dec 21 1n a letler to the red cross christmas stamp committee mark twain has written ladies ln paying new year bills and also in post poning them i will stick on a red cross stamp if you wlli suggest iu print that the whole country do the same the redj cross will prosper to your content ll know this for i know that all amcri a is warm at the heart and generous at tl.'s time of the year and will thank you for your suggestion and follow it respect fully yours mark twain such has been the success of the stamp idea that the committee has decided to continue the sale until the first of the new year j antes h hiluna c b & q faces charges of rebating to-day government aims at burlington as chief offender in beef trust cases s 20 witnesses summoned chiefs of competing lines may be called to show pack ers favoritism , Â£ twenty witnesses will be in readiness in the federal building at 10 o'clock this morning when the real prosecution of the new beef trust case begins they will have with them documents from the offices of the Chicago bur lington & quincy railroad and-froui morris & co the big packing corpor ation and their testimony will re quire two days there will be no witnesses to-day from the burlington's competing lines the Chicago milwaukee & st paul the wabash the Chicago rock island Â£ ! pacific and the santa fe but it is ! likely that before the opening phaec of the case is exhausted the followinf witnesses all high officials of these i roads and exercising supervision o j the traffic departments ' of them wi j be before the jury frederic a delano presided o tar wabash j h hiland tlfe president - the el paul r george nicholson vice president at the 1 santa ffi w b biddle rice president of thf kae island have received little traffic f these men testify they ar experced how that their roads have bÂ»en ratting little of the traffic between Chicago st joseph fort worth kansas city omaha for the packing combine and they are not expected to be reluctant oi itagonistic witnesses when the govern int calls on them district attorney sims has figures j>rov ;. that the burlington has been for the it year at least drawing the bulk of ? carrying between these important ints for the stock yards homes if the lernment can prove the reason for thlb expects to prove the existence and the thods of the trust the control within a few hands of the mense beef shipping industry has made it possible to monopolize not only the jxot phase and sale of 60 or more iÂ»r cent of the nation's entire meat output but bas mnde it ensy to concentrate wherever tlie trust wished almost as great Â» share of the transportation vice president nicholson of the santa fe said yesterday we hate not jeeu gat ting our share of the beef and i-attle trÂ»f fie we have had very light patron^gt from the big stock yards houses no optc investigation of our records was made br the government it is possible thai l se cret examination of our foookb occ rr*a we and i personally are ready at a mo ment's notice to bare all accounts to o government ffj no burlington official calleu it is regarded as significant that iflough the books and papers of all these roafln have been overhauled by the secret service accountants the records of only the bur lington traffic department and clair -.- e partineut have been asked for on me otner hand no official of the c b & q.ha been aaked to take an immunity bath through the medium of testifying before the inquisitors it is certain that tlie government will attempt to prove tliat the burlington and the packers had a rebating arrangement it is almost as certain that there will be no effort to prove that such violation were practiced by the lines competing e a kipley president of the santa j fe when the former beef trial t ok place was on tue stand for a day and a half and he made no secret of the dissatisfaction union the railroads with the conditions which made it passible for the trust to dictate tho rates routes and roads for mure than half of the nation's meat two phases of prosecution i thus it is found that while there are two phases of the beef trust arraign mentâ€”the rebating charges and the mo nopoly charges â€” each will be used iff sup t port of the other to prove the following main allegations . that the four large packing corporations i through a subsidiary corporation maintain n secret agreement whereby the purchaie and sales prices and the supply and de mand are ftxed daily that this position of monopoly enables tho trnst to procure illegal rebates from one or more railroads for the transporta tion of cattle on the hoof and meats onlv morris & co will be represented hv . i'nins-1 for the defense in the federal buildlug to-iliir moritz rosentnal ths uuo-a day si â– of the wjnt 8taÂ»dar r i difficulties v ili be oa hand to admenls the witnesses before rhey enter the chats ber and to confer with them as eaan as . ' sitnl and several of us acnapenr yesterday in conference in th feaet buildir.g rosentn devoted tie afternoon to the or"hgstra reelttl nfl the vsln>to oc*il visiting ii weather forecast ie feft Chicago and vicinity fair j|h yjfl monday with fresh westerly winds p jl \ f becoming variable there will be l|j y'i a change to marked types of win |-.> llft ter weather during the latter half jh jlh of the present week 5s 1 results both real and rapid if l(y\a ar " rece ve d by advertise son the h f\s want pa^es of the examiner t â€¢ j v^b for proof try it 7i jj phone randolph 2500 fl â– â– â– â– â–

Chicago examiner monday december 28 1908 price one cent gjggggjgg vol vii no 6 a m Taft plan to solve trust problem modeled on hearst bill interstate commerce court urged in measure introduced by the congressman killed by the railroads president-elect may be able to compel larger power for commission washington dec 27.â€”presi dent-elect Taft has paid wil liam randolph hearst the compliment of adopting almost ver batim one of the latter's plans for the solution of the trust problem the Taft plan of an interstate commerce court which is outlined in the dis patches from augusta follows along the same lines laid down in mr hearst's bill introduced when he was a member of congress and killed by a coalition of republican and demo cratic railroad representatives these facts were pointed out here to-day by officials who as yet will only consent to discuss the Taft plan privately because it has not yet been formally and officially presented when the hearst bill was introduced republican leading politicians while not understanding the value of the suggestion of the interstate commerce court held stoutly that congress would not stand for a multiplication of judieiai tribunals and it was of course impossible to have the hearst bill passed in the face of railroad and republican opposition hearst and Taft plans compared the object of the court contemplated by mr hearst was to expedite cases of com plaint between carriers and shippers and in order to do this it was proposed to in vest the court with full judicial powers short only of jurisdiction fiver grave consti tutional issues which might be raised in the consideration of any particular cases such issues of course would have to be passed upon by the supreme court ot the united states the scheme advocated by judge Taft is simply to invest the interstate commerce commission with judicial powers and to make the bureau of corporations and the department of justice its assistants it need not be stated that if the hearst bill had been passed the bureau of corporations and the department of justice would of necessity have been the assistants of the courts president-elect Taft would have this relation declared by statute law the reason for the suggestions of judge Taft is that if his views were written in to the statutes present legal operations with reference to interstate corporations would not be so cumbersome he properly maintained that the interstate commerce commission would be relieved of a lot of work which properly belonged to the bu reau of corporations and also of a lot of legal work which should belodg to the de partment of justice are essentially the same on all points of important relation to the public service the interstate commerce commission as a court according to judge Taft and the interstate commerce court of mr hearst are essentially the same expedition a quick settlement of affairs j between a railroad and a shipper the elimination as far as possible of all litiga tion except in the interstate commerce court were features of the hearst scheme expedition the concentration of bureaus and the hastening of issues to a swift hear ing and decision are features of the Taft scheme with the immense power which judge Taft as president will be r.ble to wield iu congress there seems to be very little doubt that he will establish a new inter state commerce commission with larger power than it now has and with judicial functions Chicago lawn citizens fight a prairie blaze women and children aid in battle to protect homes one fire company two policemen and about half the population of Chicago lawn including many women and children turned out to fight a prairie fire which threatened to destroy the suburb yesterday afternoon a spark from a belt line locomotive started the blaze in dry weeds nenr the tracks the high wind caused the flames to spread rapidly houses of chiea-o lawn were filled with smoke a call was sent to the Chicago lawn fire company and the residents of the locality followed the example of the northern woods d well el's in time of forest fires 125,000 fire in morris plant in st joseph mo st joseph mo dec 27 for eight hours to-day a fire which started in the fertilizing department of the nelson morris packing company's plant burned fiercely and was not subdued until this afternoou the loss is estimated at 125,000 by super intendent 1 vv lloyd from the fertiliz ing building the flames spread to the oil lank warehouse both buildings and con tents were entirely consumed desperate work was necessary to save the buildings of the hammond and swift & co plauts taft's plan feature of w r hearst bill introduced dec 4 1905 rhe rtansof william h Taft president-elect for the regu lation of corporations doing an to terstalj business were authorita tively given in dispatches from au gusta printed in all the papers yesterday the plan as outlined follows the interstate commerce com mission is to be relieved of its duties as an investigating body it is to be a commission exercising only quasi-judicial functions the jurisdiction of the bureau of cor porations on the other hand is to be extended over all corpora tions doing an interstate business it will be charged with the detailed work of investigating and prepar ing cases this bureau acting upon individ ual complaints or upon its own initiative will lay the results of its investigations before the inter state commerce commission for de cision it will originate all cases the new bureau in the department of justice will work in co-operation with the bureau of corporations and the interstate commerce com mission when legal aid is necessary below are extracts from a till to increase ihe powers of the in terstate commerce commission and to expedite the final decision of cases arising under the act to reg ulate commerce by creating an in terstate commerce court intro duced in the house of representa tives december -}, 1905 by william randolph hearst sec 8 that there is hereby cre ated a court to de known as the court of interstate commerce which shall consist of three jus tices * * Â» said court shall be a court of record sec 9 that said court of inter state commerce shall have exclu sive jurisdiction to review all or ders of the interstate commerce commission and summarily to en force performance thereof by writs or other proper process * * \ the said court shall also have ex clusive and all necessary jurisdic tion to enforce upon the petition of the united states or of the inter state commerce commission the requirements of the act to regulate commerce â€¢ * * disobedience of any order writ or other process of said court shall constitute con tempt of said court punishable by a fine 3 â€¢ * of 5,000 for each offense or by imprisonment for not more than one year or by both such fine and such punishment a * * while the hearst bill and the Taft plan differ in detail both agree on the idea of an interstate commerce court the hearst bill provided for a court whose decisions would be final except upon questions of con stitutionality it 1b mr taft's scheme to make it a quasi-judicial body in the hearst bill it was planned that the interstate commerce commission should continue its investigating powers if mr taft's proposed changes are made the bureau of cor porations will exercise administra tive functions becoming in effect the commission while the commission itself will act only in a judicial capa city roosevelt to catch em alive and crate em to zoo at washington washington d c dec 27.-ou the forthcoming african trip the president will try to capture a few of em alive and crate em borne to the washington zoo he has made no specific promise to this effect but inquiry has been made at the zoo from the white house as to what african animals are lacking in the collec tion and head keeper blackburn is wag ging bis head and speaking mysteriously about prospective additions to his zoolog ical collection none of the highly prized and almost ex tinct animals from the dark continent is at the zoo although the collection of the better known animals is excellent two african animals which dr frank baker the superintendent is desirous of adding to the collection are the oryx and the kleeaeboc antelope the oryx has the mane and tail of a horse and the legs and feet of an antelope the kleeneboc is the smallest variety of antelope known it is only a foot high at the shoulder and it is so timid that it is almost impossible for hunters to get close enough to kill one for several years blackburn also has been especially anxious to obtain a kahau the proboscis monkey this ape is aboat three feet high and is regarded as one of the rarest of the monkey family it is remarkable for its great length of nose from which ft derives its name a list of all these animals will be fur nished to the president before he departs zero weather for this week promised real winter weather is coming the lat ter part of this week possibly with zero temperature aceording to advices from the weather bureau last night in the early part of the week fresh winds will blow from the west the maximum tempera ture for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 o'clock last night was 45 degrees at 0 o'clock saturday night the minimum was 30 degrees at 9 o'clock yesterday morning pittsburger in jail still gets graft voters league to attach money deposited for council man sue banks to-day president sent experts heney may investigate alleged bribery at request of roosevelt ' pittsbtjbg pa dee 27 that even prison walls will not stop the average pittsburg boodling councilman from col lecting graft was apparently shown here to-day when it became known that the voters league and others who are run ning to earth the boodlers are prepared to show that w a martin former council manic boodler who is serving a three-year term at riverside penitentiary is still get ting his share of graft wrung from pitts burs among other things it was learned this afternoon that martin recently was given a long conference outside the prison witu president brand of councils the only on of the seven under arrest whose ball is held at 30,000 martin was brought from prison ostensibly as a witness in a certain case but he was not called instead he was made the hero of a reception by his former fellow council mates and president brand had a long conversation with him graft deposited monthly members of the voters league even as sert that martin's share of graft is being deposited for him monthly in a certain pittsburg bank and they intend to have it attached if possible proceedings will be begun to-morrow to force the six banks haviug the city depos its and which mayor guthrle and the voters league declare were obtained by fraud to relinquish them to twelve other depositories which shall be named here after it is found that of the 5,000,090 of city funds on deposit there are bonds amounting to only s*_\3o0,o0o to cover it that president roosevelt took a hand in the expose is the declaration of uabbi leonard j levy of the hebrew synagogue here levy is one of the vice presidents of the voters league and a very close friend of president boosevell he says he and willis mccoofc n noted pittsburg attorney and member of the board of the equitable life assurance were among those who went to washington with the data some time ago and asked for assistance eevelt sent examiners the same train returning with them ttsburg were six special bank exam sent by president roosevelt to get e banks quickly and all together so there would be no opportunity to twist out of conditions which the rabbi and mr mecook assured president roosevelt there is a rumor to-night that francis j heney who uncovered the oregon land frauds and was conspicuous in the san francisco graft prosecution is coming here soon at the request of president roosevelt to investigate the charges of wholesale bribery in the pittsburg coun cils so far as it is connected with federal institutions according to washington reports heney was in conference with the president yes terday on the pittsburg situation if he comes here it will be in the capacity of a special examiner it is said to investigate the alleged use of money by officers of national banks to have their institutions made depositories of the city's funds a statement was made at the preliminary hearings of the men under arrest that 176,000 had thus been expended new york theaters run with police censorship no sunday vaudeville permitted lectures at picture shows new york dec 21 the police ran the new york theaters to-day and the vaudeville house patrons had all the worst of matters every vaudeville manager had to release practically all the headliners and fill in a makeshift programme to fit the occasion the moving picture house managers thanks to their injunction got along much better with the aid of a lec turer the actors and managers of the houses operated by the theatrical man agers protective association managed to escape trouble but independent players and operators were not so fortunate su perintendent john i'lnkler of the american theater was taken into custody with cliff gordon a monologist when the latter was charged with impersonating some one big wolf chases man in streets of peoria pursued escapes into home and kills animal from window peoria 111 dec 27 the unusual spectacle of a large gray wolf pursuing a man through the streets of this city was witnessed on lower cedar street here to day when the animal darted from a tim ber yard near the river front and chased b'rank kiefer to his residence kiefer got inside the house in time to slam the door in the wolf's face then seizing a rifle he shot the animal from a window where the wolf came from is a mystery as it has been years since one has been seen even by hunters in this vicinity it is believed however that the wolf is oue of a reported den located blow pekin in tazewell county and that it edged its way along the river bank into peoria and was driven by hunger to attack liiefer chappells united leave for florida doctor's wife whose disap pearance alarmed family arrives from boise idaho was seeking health we're as happy as sweet hearts she says after affectionate meeting mrs ora a cliappell sotiety woman and wife of the prominent elgin dentist whose mysterious disappearance from her home last oetober and whose long-continued ab sence had given rise to much gossip and speculation in her home city reached chi cago yesterday afternoon from boise idaho where bhe has been recuperating her shattered health with her husband the two as happy as a pair of reunited sweethearts apparently she left later in the evening fckr jackson ville fla where she and dr chappell will spend the remaining winter mouths mrs chappell all unconscious of the worry and anxiety the had been causing her aged mother and her sons by her fail ure to keep them informed of her where abouts left the home of the rev j a barton a fresbyterian minister ln boise in response to a telegram from her hus band on christmas eve met at station by husband when she arrived at the la salle street station yesterday afternoon dr chappell who had been pacing up and down the platform for an hour before the train ar rived rushed up to her clasped her in his arms and imprinted several kisses upon her cheeks mi chappell was beaming and happy she returned the salutation and began ] an animated conversation with dr chap pell she appeared to be in perfect health in a few moments dr and mrs chappell were joined by mrs harry g meeker of elgin mrs chappell's dearest friend and the only person in elgin except dr chap pell who hud known all along where she ' was and mrs meeker's nineteen-year-old daughter mildred the party went to a downtown restaurant for dinner and then i mrs meeker and her daughter went to the i station to sec the doctor ami his wife started pn their southern journey i went to boise simply to regain my ' health which had been sadly shattered liy the experience through which i had gone in the few months previous said mrs chappell i didn't want anyone to know where i had gone and i made my husband promise that he would not tell anyone we were in correspondence constantly laughed at disappearance story ( i had no idea that my absence vas creating any talk in elgin until i was only a day out from Chicago then i picked up a paper and saw the story of my mys terious disappearance it made me laugh i don't see why anyone ln my family should have worried over me none of them seemed to do any worrying about me when i was at hame especially my sons who in turn gave me plenty of cause for 1 worry dr chappell and myself are thoroughly in accord on every subject what he has done has been right he has done just what i should have wished him to do un der the circumstances if i wanted to go away and rest and be kept from worry that was something between my husband and myself i am happy to be back i am happv to , see my husband again we are as h-appy , as a pair of youug sweethearts if there have ever been any clouds on our domestic i horizon they have been swept awav long ago bill was withdrawn mrs chappell it will be remembered filed a bill for separate maintenance j against dr chappell last fall the bill was speedily withdrawn shortly before mrs chappell left home previous to this 1 there had beeu anottnw misunderstanding which resulted in her leaviug home ana taking up her residence with her sister mrs c h potter this time through the good offices of her son ora mann chun pell a reconciliation was effected in regard to her sons ora and hollo who have become estranged from their father nnd who have been publiclv cast ! ofl by their parent mrs chappell had < little to say j they are foolish hoys she said they 1 will soon see the error of their ways and will realize that they have beeu led by s some one who has not their best interests ; at heart i am sorry that they have , broken with their father but under the ' circumstances there was nothing else for t him to du . dispatches from boise say that mrs , chappell lived for a time with iho barton â€¢ family as was exclusively told yesterday â– morning in the examiner > did not talk of trouble i although she was with us or several j mouths said mrs barton last night she never divulged the cause of her com ing or going it was evident that she was f laboring under a great sorrow of some 5 sort but she did uot explain it the day before christmas she told us that a large part of her burden bad been removed and that she was preparing to leave that is all we know aoout her although we were friendly to her and soon acquired au ad miration and respect for her the manner in which mrs chappell se cured quarters with the her mr barton 5 and wife threw some light on the agita tion under which she was laboring when she arrived in boise she had secured an apartment at the idanha hotel and she was attempting to 1 get a room in a private faniily when she , came to us continued mrs barton we . had not advertised for a roomer but she ' appeared to be especially anxious to live - with us after she learned that my hus . band was a minister 1 under mental stress r her whole appearance and condition 3 made it evident that she was under a 1 mental stress of some sort and we hes . itated on that account before agreeing to let her have the room she perceived ' our reluctaucy and assured us that al 1 though she could not tell us her story she t was doing what she believed was right and could in no manner harm us as her reputation was unsullied 1 just before leaving boise mrs chappell s received several telegrams which seemed to i increase her agitation christmas eve she got one supposedly from her husband and left at ouce for Chicago i v programme of prosecution in new beef trust inquiry r the present proceedings before the federal gtflnd jury the government has two objects in vieiv first â€” to prove conclusively i hat there is a beet trust second â€” to prove conclusive ly that this trust has entered into au agreement with the Chicago bur lington i quincy railroad the government will use officials of rival and competing roads in the attempt to prove its contentions by these rival officials the gov ernment expects to show that the bulk of the alleged trust's business has been thrown to the bur lington that the shipments and railroad business for the different packing com panies are all handled by one man hence that the trust which was supposed to have been dissolved by fed eral injunction is in reality in existence that rebating is going on contrary to law f a delano president of the wabash ; j h hiland vice president of the Chicago milwaukee & st paul ; george nicholson vice pres ident of the santa fe and w s biddle vice president of the rock island are all expected to testily to these alleged existing conditions frederick a delano george t a ichulson prophet missing sits quit watch spangler leaves home of follower promising to meet her on mars new york dec 27 although the end of the world did not come to-day as lee j spangler the prophet of nyack n y had predicted it would the prophet himself disappeared at 4 a m and has not since been seen spangler had cautioned all the saints to be prepared for trans lation therefore a crowd of women fol lowers dressed in white went to oak hill cemetery to-day to await the event scores of others climbed south mountain where the prophet had promised to meet them when the predicted phenomenon did not materialize and spangler failed to appear his disciples returned to the city many with looks of disgust on their faces from sunup until midday the prophet's disciples clad in flimsy white muslin cau vag shoes and wool caps waited patiently for the rivers to dry up the mountains to tumble new york to go up in smoke and themselves to be caught up into the heavens according to chief of police furroy prophet spangler who spent the night at the home of mrs henrietta murdoch his high priestess ascended to heaven early in the day by way of the back door while policemen warrant in hand were watching the front of the house before he departed he told mrs mur dock tiiat he would meet her on mars where all hands were to change their cor poreal for spiritual bodies mrs murdoch had been assigned to go to the railroad station at 10 a m to welcome iu the prophet's place the host of disciples expected from manhattan and lead them to ex-prophet abram's grave high up the mountain in oak hill cemetery this change in plan was decided upon because a trusty follower conveyed to the prophet the intelligence that some unsym pathetic nyack citizens were melting a pot of tar and collecting a bag of feathers the procession attracted a coupl of hundred men and boys most of whom were armed with eggs cabbages oranges and apples which had seen better days scotty wins cab at dice will give it away calls up the examiner to find worthy charity a distressed voice called up the ex aminer at an early hour this morning and said this is walter scott scotty of death valley you know i've just won a horse and cal shooting craps and i wish you'd come down and get it it's at the annex now i drove it home where did i get it why at a south side saloon i started in to shoot craps at a hundred a crack with a bunch of sports and pretty soon we raised it to 500 j j smith a cabby butted in " i'll shake you my horse and cab against 500 he said on the shake i won the outfit i would like to give thi rig to charity if you can suggest a way so any charity wishing a horse and cab will please see scotty 2 a m word has just been received from the annex that the cab has been given back to the cabman two shot in family fight in the dark brothers battle with brothers believed to have involved girl greenville 111 dee 21 five young men who until christmas day had been the best of friends engaged in a desperate battle late at night iu the home of charles b file a prosperous farmer who lives near reno bond county one of the boys is dead another is dangerously wounded the latter part of the battle was in the dark all the lights having been shot out ruby file nineteen years old is the one who was killed his brother noah file twenty years old was dangerously wounded john and james willlford are now in jail at greenville their brother george willlford is charged with shooting ruby file but he has escaped james says he did not figure in the affair at all the williford boys are sons of henry w willlford one of the wealthiest farm ers ln the western eud of bond county the willlfords and the files are related by marriage girl believed cause of fight there are two explanations of the shoot ing one is that it grew out of a dispute over 125 which george williford said samuel file owed him another explana tion nnd the one generally accepted as the fact ls that the trouble was about a sister of the wiillford boys to whom sam file had been very attentive none of the parties concerned will discuss the affair george and john willlford visited the file farm early last evening and asked for ! sam but he was not at bomb they went away and met sam coming home iu a buggy he whipped up his horse and es | caped them then the wiilifords went back to the file farm antl battered on the door until charles it file admitted them we want to see sam said george williford sam consented to a parley in the kitchen provided george would go unarmed his was agreed to and tiie young men eon fronted oilier men battle in darkies file declined to make auy explanations and they returned to the sitting room where williford demanded that file should accompany him home file rel'used to go without protection then johu willlford handed a revolver to george and george wns about lo tire at sam file when ruby file interfered and got the bullet that was intended for his brother the lights went out and the wild strug gle of the six men went on in the dark ness noah file wa.s shot in an attempt to disarm george williford af^er several minutes of lighting sam file succeeded in throwing geoi-ge williford out of he house and bis brother john followed of his own volition - the two brothers leaped upon their horses and disappeared john and james williford were arrested at their father's home at 4 o'clock this morning st louis other neighboring cities nre being searched for george twain to pay debts with red cross stamps new york dec 21 1n a letler to the red cross christmas stamp committee mark twain has written ladies ln paying new year bills and also in post poning them i will stick on a red cross stamp if you wlli suggest iu print that the whole country do the same the redj cross will prosper to your content ll know this for i know that all amcri a is warm at the heart and generous at tl.'s time of the year and will thank you for your suggestion and follow it respect fully yours mark twain such has been the success of the stamp idea that the committee has decided to continue the sale until the first of the new year j antes h hiluna c b & q faces charges of rebating to-day government aims at burlington as chief offender in beef trust cases s 20 witnesses summoned chiefs of competing lines may be called to show pack ers favoritism , Â£ twenty witnesses will be in readiness in the federal building at 10 o'clock this morning when the real prosecution of the new beef trust case begins they will have with them documents from the offices of the Chicago bur lington & quincy railroad and-froui morris & co the big packing corpor ation and their testimony will re quire two days there will be no witnesses to-day from the burlington's competing lines the Chicago milwaukee & st paul the wabash the Chicago rock island Â£ ! pacific and the santa fe but it is ! likely that before the opening phaec of the case is exhausted the followinf witnesses all high officials of these i roads and exercising supervision o j the traffic departments ' of them wi j be before the jury frederic a delano presided o tar wabash j h hiland tlfe president - the el paul r george nicholson vice president at the 1 santa ffi w b biddle rice president of thf kae island have received little traffic f these men testify they ar experced how that their roads have bÂ»en ratting little of the traffic between Chicago st joseph fort worth kansas city omaha for the packing combine and they are not expected to be reluctant oi itagonistic witnesses when the govern int calls on them district attorney sims has figures j>rov ;. that the burlington has been for the it year at least drawing the bulk of ? carrying between these important ints for the stock yards homes if the lernment can prove the reason for thlb expects to prove the existence and the thods of the trust the control within a few hands of the mense beef shipping industry has made it possible to monopolize not only the jxot phase and sale of 60 or more iÂ»r cent of the nation's entire meat output but bas mnde it ensy to concentrate wherever tlie trust wished almost as great Â» share of the transportation vice president nicholson of the santa fe said yesterday we hate not jeeu gat ting our share of the beef and i-attle trÂ»f fie we have had very light patron^gt from the big stock yards houses no optc investigation of our records was made br the government it is possible thai l se cret examination of our foookb occ rr*a we and i personally are ready at a mo ment's notice to bare all accounts to o government ffj no burlington official calleu it is regarded as significant that iflough the books and papers of all these roafln have been overhauled by the secret service accountants the records of only the bur lington traffic department and clair -.- e partineut have been asked for on me otner hand no official of the c b & q.ha been aaked to take an immunity bath through the medium of testifying before the inquisitors it is certain that tlie government will attempt to prove tliat the burlington and the packers had a rebating arrangement it is almost as certain that there will be no effort to prove that such violation were practiced by the lines competing e a kipley president of the santa j fe when the former beef trial t ok place was on tue stand for a day and a half and he made no secret of the dissatisfaction union the railroads with the conditions which made it passible for the trust to dictate tho rates routes and roads for mure than half of the nation's meat two phases of prosecution i thus it is found that while there are two phases of the beef trust arraign mentâ€”the rebating charges and the mo nopoly charges â€” each will be used iff sup t port of the other to prove the following main allegations . that the four large packing corporations i through a subsidiary corporation maintain n secret agreement whereby the purchaie and sales prices and the supply and de mand are ftxed daily that this position of monopoly enables tho trnst to procure illegal rebates from one or more railroads for the transporta tion of cattle on the hoof and meats onlv morris & co will be represented hv . i'nins-1 for the defense in the federal buildlug to-iliir moritz rosentnal ths uuo-a day si â– of the wjnt 8taÂ»dar r i difficulties v ili be oa hand to admenls the witnesses before rhey enter the chats ber and to confer with them as eaan as . ' sitnl and several of us acnapenr yesterday in conference in th feaet buildir.g rosentn devoted tie afternoon to the or"hgstra reelttl nfl the vsln>to oc*il visiting ii weather forecast ie feft Chicago and vicinity fair j|h yjfl monday with fresh westerly winds p jl \ f becoming variable there will be l|j y'i a change to marked types of win |-.> llft ter weather during the latter half jh jlh of the present week 5s 1 results both real and rapid if l(y\a ar " rece ve d by advertise son the h f\s want pa^es of the examiner t â€¢ j v^b for proof try it 7i jj phone randolph 2500 fl â– â– â– â– â–